Cobb's Engine House
Cobb's Engine House (properly known as Windmill End Pumping Station) in Rowley Regis, Staffordshire is a scheduled ancient monument and a Grade II listed building built around 1831.[1]
It housed a stationary steam pump used to pump water firstly from Windmill End Colliery and later other mines in the area. Utilising a shaft 525 feet deep, 1,600,000 litres of water were pumped from the mines into the canal daily.[2] It ceased work in 1928 and the Newcomen-type engine was moved to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan in 1930.[3]
It stands near Windmill End Junction in the Warren's Hall local nature reserve, where the Dudley No. 2 Canal and the Boshboil Arm meets the southern end of the Netherton Tunnel Branch Canal. The area came into the possession of Sir Horace St Paul from his father-in-law, ohn Ward, 2nd Viscount Dudley and Ward, on his marriage to John's daughter Anna Maria Ward.[4] It was Horace who instigated the construction of the engine house.
References
- ↑ "Cobbs Engine House Statistics". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20070928011147/http://www.laws.sandwell.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/transport-and-streets/waterways/canals/top-10-canal-attractions/.
- ↑ "Cobb's Engine House". Archived from the original on 2007-04-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20070409130406/http://www.dudley.gov.uk/leisure-and-culture/parks-and-open-spaces/liveability/bumble-hole-and-warrens-hall-local-nature-res.
- ↑ "Listed Buildings in Rowley Regis". Archived from the original on 7 January 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070107005821/http://www.laws.sandwell.gov.uk/ccm/content/urbanform/planninganddevelopment/historicenvironment/listedbuildingslists/cobbs-engine-house-and-chimney.en.
- ↑ "Sir Horace St.Paul". http://www.thepeerage.com/p8045.htm#i80442.
Outside links
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- Location map: 52°29’34"N, 2°4’8"W
- "Cobb's Engine House and Chimney". http://www.laws.sandwell.gov.uk/ccm/content/urbanform/planninganddevelopment/historicenvironment/listedbuildingslists/cobbs-engine-house-and-chimney.en;jsessionid=a0WdKuHAXIV_.
- National Heritage List 1229552: Cobb's Engine House
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